Turnover among teachers has become an escalating issue globally, including in Pakistan, where a severe shortage of qualified teachers characterizes a struggling educational system. To counter the shortage, the government hired a large pool of qualified teachers for schools through a merit-based recruitment drive, but the newly recruited teachers…

This study examined the relationships between teachers' work-leisure conflict, work satisfaction, turnover intention, and task performance. A total of 485 responses collected from school teachers in Singapore were used for data analysis. Results indicated that work-to-leisure conflict negatively influenced work satisfaction and positively…

This study examines the academic impacts of the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), a federal public housing revitalization program, focusing on how case management, student mobility, and school compositional change intersect to shape outcomes. Using an eight-year student-level panel (2015-2023), we estimate three-way fixed effects models that…

How we define rurality fundamentally shapes our place-based understanding of the teacher workforce. This study uses the Community Assets and Relative Rurality (CARR) Index--a novel, multidimensional measure of rurality--alongside longitudinal administrative data to examine K-12 teachers in Kansas and Missouri. We find substantial variation in…

This study examines the demographics, qualifications, and turnover of STEM teachers in Kansas and Missouri--two contiguous, predominantly rural states in the Midwestern region of the United States. The existing literature lacks detailed insights regarding U.S. STEM teachers, especially with recent economic and social changes over the COVID-19…

We study the short-term effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index to classify municipalities by cases and infection rates in 2020. Using administrative panel data for all students in Guatemala, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy that leverages municipal…

The Arkansas Office of Early Childhood is collaborating with SRI International, the National Center for Children in Poverty, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to learn about the supply, quality, and stability of early care and education (ECE) for children in foster care, as well as factors that promote or reduce access to…

Past research on teacher shortages due to turnover has not adequately distinguished between teachers leaving the profession (attrition) and moving between schools (migration), hindering the identification of tailored retention strategies for schools and/or the profession. This study, part of a comprehensive project including a systematic review,…

This paper scrutinises the concept of educational urgency through the experiences of former students at two sixth forms in a working-class, ethnic minority borough in East London, Brampton Manor Academy (BMA) and the London Academy of Excellence (LAE). Crowned as the 'Etons of the East End', BMA and LAE have become templates for educational…

Every year, students from different indigenous communities in Colombia set out on a journey to higher education. Although previous research has looked into students' challenges at university, there is still the need to understand indigenous students' mobility trajectories in terms of how they come to grips with the new material, semiotic, and…

The processes of Europeanisation--meaning the deepening of European integration on various levels--have previously been discussed from the point of view of political science, economics, linguistics, and cultural studies, with a macro-perspective on states, institutions, and organisations. However, Europe and the European Union (EU) are populated…

Professional culture is a key element for successful implementation and change in schools. The purpose of this paper is to triangulate collaboration networks and experiences of educators to describe the emergent professional cultures in three newly-opened pre-kindergarten schools. This paper uses an exploratory mixed-methods case study approach.…

Informed by Bourdieu's conceptualisation of habitus and its relation with social class, this study explores the construction and negotiation of middle-class identity among a group of urban overseas returnees in China. Using ethnographic interviews and online observational data, the study found that participants built a compliant identity…

Teachers' professional identity has an important impact on the career development of university teachers. The returnee teachers have both domestic and overseas study experience, so they show particularity in professional identity in China. This study adopted the mixed-methods approach to investigate returnee teachers' professional identity and the…

Despite recognizing the importance of critical incidents (CIs) in teachers' professionalism, there is a need for more research on novice teachers' CIs, especially emotional CIs. This study describes the emotional CIs of a novice language teacher during her first year of teaching by relying on Schutz et al.'s (in: Schutz, Hong, Francis (eds)…